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BOOK I. 



Picturesque Beauty. This term seems to have been ori- 

 ginally applied to such objects or scenes as were best suited 

 for producing a good effect when painted. It is now applied 

 more generally, and is characterized by roughness, abruptness, 

 and irregularity, either in the outline, form, disposition, or 

 colour. — See Price's Essays. 



Sculpturesque Beauty may be applied to such objects, 

 or figures, as are peculiarly calculated for being represented 

 by the art of sculpture. 



Antique Beauty is applied to such works of art, particu- 

 larly in sculpture and architecture, as are in design similar to 

 the productions of antient Greece or Rome. 



Romantic Beauty is aterm applied to such scenes or objects 

 as are more like the fanciful productions of romance writers, 

 than general nature. It unites the grand without the awful, the 

 wild without the savage, the solitary without the forlorn, the 

 cheerful luxuriance and variety of nature without the teeming 

 abundance and regularity of art. 



Wildness, as opposed to the elegance and refinement of cul- 

 ture, or polished nature, is occasionally a great beauty ; as, in 

 spots of heath, furze, thorns, or copse, when amid the more rich 



